Epstein Secrets

fundamental change in Israel's strategic calculus. The loss of a faraway strategic partner and the gain of a EFTA00659893 new one just across the Sinai desert gave rise to a new doctrine, most clearly enunciated by Israel's second great strategic thinker, Yitzhak Rabin. A hawkish dove, Rabin believ

nhance the president's image. "Israeli officials know that it's an election year," says Melman. "They believe the information was leaked to glorify the Obama Administration. Israeli officials are not going to rock the boat and ruin the party." The Times story is part of a larger narrative being driven by the Obama tea

ll seek assurances from Egypt not only about llamas stopping all fire out of Gaza but also about Egypt preventing the smuggling of arms through the Sinai into Gaza. Is Egypt up to or even willing to play this role? Much will depend on what matters most to Egypt's new leaders: their ideology or the c

port specifically recommended an additional defense site on the U.S. East Coast to augment interceptors in California and Alaska. Three years ago, the Obama Administration pulled the plug on a site in Poland and the Czech Republic, bending to Russian pressure. In its place, the White House decided to protect Europe f

tween the two countries. The US made economic assistance to Egypt contingent upon the proviso that it meets its security obligations in the northern Sinai which includes shipments of natural gas to Israel. Tunisia Election of the Constitutional Assembly in Tunisia have been postponed to October 23 th

herhood and are pushing the interim government to postpone the elections. Egypt has resumed supply of natural gas to Israel following pressure from the Obama Administration. Supplies were halted following an explosion on April 27 that damaged the pipeline carrying natural gas to Jordan, Israel, Syria, and Lebanon. The

le, and has this led him to want to deal firmly with them from the outset? Egypt received a message to the effect that Al-Qaeda was in control of the Sinai and that Israel therefore felt itself free to act as it wishes. Alternatively, could Netanyahu's thinking be headed in another direction, such that

tes for this kind of fight? This is at least in part a question of national or societal resilience. If all options are on the table, as both Bush and Obama Administration spokesmen have insisted, are preparations for employing all options being made ready? If not, then Iran may decide that some of the options on the ta